He continued: “I was asked to be in Aerosmith and I said no. Certain bands and certain frontman singers are more difficult to replace than others. Steven Tyler and that band have stayed together for 40 years and you don’t to walk into something like that.”

Hagar also said he hoped he would be asked to join Led Zeppelin, but said he would have turned that opportunity down too, as “they were the greatest band on earth and no one could replace Robert Plant“.

He added that this wasn’t a problem when he replaced David Lee Roth as singer of Van Halen, saying “it was easy because Dave wasn’t a great singer”.